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Sharing system design takeaways, performance learnings, and insights from building civic infra.

MAY 2026

#fastapi#postgis#gemini ai#civic tech

Building an AI-Powered Civic Grievance System with FastAPI and PostGIS

How we architected JanSamadhan to ingest WhatsApp webhooks, route tickets dynamically to city departments, and suppress duplicate complaints using location-aware queries.

TL;DR: Scale, accuracy, and geo-deduplication: key system design lessons from deploying a municipal pilot in Delhi.

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MAY 2026

#fastapi#next.js#redis#system design

How I Built JanSamadhan: Serving 300+ Citizens with 99.9% Uptime

A deep dive into the engineering choices, performance bottlenecks, and database optimizations required to run a live municipal service pilot.

TL;DR: How proper database indexing, connection pooling, and asynchronous task offloading kept a civic tech pilot performant under peak mock stress testing.

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MAY 2026

#solana#rust#anchor#web3

Solana Blockchain for Disaster Aid: Lessons from a Hackathon Project

How we built a decentralized disaster aid tracking ledger on Solana Devnet to guarantee NGO transparency while maintaining beneficiary privacy.

TL;DR: Evaluating the tradeoffs of on-chain auditable ledgers versus private off-chain citizen credentials under active crisis workloads.

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MAY 2026

#hackathon#react#groq api#tailwind css

What I Learned Winning InnovateNSUT '26 in 24 Hours

Behind-the-scenes engineering decisions and tactical hackathon strategies that turned a raw idea into a 1st place civic issue reporting platform.

TL;DR: Focus on speed-to-judgement: why API response times and visual indicators are more important than complex ML models during 24-hour sprints.

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